2014
DOI: 10.1590/s0080-623420140000700013
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Evaluation of the Primary Care in leprosy control: proposal of an instrument for users

Abstract: Objective Developing an instrument to evaluate the performance of primary health care in the leprosy control actions, from the perspective of users and do the face and content validation. Method This is a methodological study carried out in four stages: development of instrument, face and content validation, pre-test, and analysis of test-retest reliability. Results The initial instrument submitted to the judgment of 15 experts was composed of 157 items. The face and content validation and pre-test of instrume… Show more

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“…The low detection coefficients in a significant portion of the municipalities most deprived may be evidence of underreporting of leprosy in these areas, as a result of the interaction of different factors, such as poor availability of health services, poor access by the population, disability of services in diagnosing new cases and failures in surveillance systems, with greater damage to SDI: social deprivation index. smaller municipalities [26][27][28][29] . All these reasons increase the hidden prevalence of the disease and keep many municipalities silent or with few diagnosed cases [26][27][28][29] , making leprosy invisible in these places.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The low detection coefficients in a significant portion of the municipalities most deprived may be evidence of underreporting of leprosy in these areas, as a result of the interaction of different factors, such as poor availability of health services, poor access by the population, disability of services in diagnosing new cases and failures in surveillance systems, with greater damage to SDI: social deprivation index. smaller municipalities [26][27][28][29] . All these reasons increase the hidden prevalence of the disease and keep many municipalities silent or with few diagnosed cases [26][27][28][29] , making leprosy invisible in these places.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This indicates that coverage of primary care services does not guarantee full access to leprosy control actions. The quality of health care depends on a set of attributes: gateway, access, comprehensiveness, longitudinality, coordination, focus on the person and the family, appreciation of cultural aspects and guidance to the community (11) .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Leprosy is still configured as a poorly understood disease despite all the efforts of health policies for health education, because the slightest possibility of being affected by this disease causes fear and a negative impact on family and social life [18], by the fact that the illness can bring the memory of old and prejudiced ideas [19]. The magnitude of this impact is intrinsically related to prior knowledge about the disease [2,20].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%